Example sentences of "[verb] she [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rushed to answer , thinking that it might be Barney , but it was a young journalist from the Gloucester Gazette who had interviewed her a few months previously when her latest book was published . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , and I 'll send her a few quid to get some nice things , ’ Pat said , brightening . |
| 3 | It was a sorry thing , and one which caused her a few silent tears . |
| 4 | Would Sue ( she hardly knew her , after all , had only met her a few minutes ago ) really let her share the little bubble of love that sealed her and Pete up together and away from the rest of the world ? |
| 5 | ‘ You 're a genius Lissa , ’ Adam told her a few minutes later . |
| 6 | If she had the nerve , the sheer bloody brass neck , to do that , then maybe he 'd give her a few minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 8 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 9 | He picked her up and threw her a few metres down the corridor . |
| 10 | He joined her a few minutes later carrying her drink and a glass of lager for himself . |
| 11 | I held them off with steelies and stones , and they fired back with air-guns , and for a while it was quite exciting , but then Mrs Clamp came with the weekly messages and threatened to call the police , and after calling her a few nasty names they left . |
| 12 | I take it you 'll be staying her a few days ? ’ |
| 13 | Yet he showed a certain reluctance to touch her , just giving her a few social kisses , one or two , on meeting or parting . |
| 14 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 15 | Ballater waited awkwardly for the perfunctory thank you kiss , giving her a few moments before turning away . |
| 16 | You 're just from the YTS. — You 've only known her a few weeks . |
| 17 | I did phone her a few weeks ago and she said , ooh I 'll have to see you on Friday in Mould you know get a |
| 18 | If a black pupil comes to see her a few times she automatically labels them as troublemakers . |
| 19 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |
| 20 | He 'd given her a few sugar pieces , which she 'd taken , and even offered several pinches of snuff , which she had n't . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm looking forward to seeing your brother again , ’ Donna said , sipping the dry martini Alex had given her a few minutes earlier . |
| 22 | Juliet had given her a few pointers , but indream Susan found her experience as Vanessa Vail somehow more confidence-building . |
| 23 | To make life easier for us all I started to teach her a few commands , but I found she would obey any order before it was given . |
| 24 | It took her a few minutes to realise what it was . |
| 25 | I brought her up , gave her a few significant experiences , got her married , made her unhappy and killed her off . |
| 26 | I gave her a few days off when William went away . |
| 27 | Some of them smelt of oil or grease of a kind she did n't recognize I gave her a few samples from the labs without telling her what they were and she picked out gun oil as being the nearest . |
| 28 | She told him her husband had left her a few months before for another woman . |
| 29 | He toyed with telling her a few home truths , but then decided it would do no good . |
| 30 | I should like to ask her a few questions , such as what she really feels about the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |